Name That Chief
Name the Founding Father who voted against the Constitution.
Who is James Monroe?
Because it did not have a Bill of Rights
Presidents have always been limited to serve only two terms. True or False
What is false. In 1951 Congress passed the 22nd Amendment, limited future Presidents to 2 terms.
In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on what?
What is war on poverty. In series of welfare programs intended to lower the high poverty rate in the US
In the election of 1880, was James Garfield called a dark horse or a white knight.
What is a dark horse. It means a candidate whose name is not well known.
Which one was related to eleven other presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt or John F Kennedy.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is related to the Adamses, Madison, Van Buren, the Harrisons, Taylor, Grant, T. Roosevelt, and Taft.
Did the US have first a president or a post office
What is a post office? Benjamin Franklin became the first postmaster general on July 26, 1775.
Name the President who has the same name as a famous cartoon character.
Who is James A Garfield?
only in office for 6 months
Presidential Briefs are about what
There are about Current affairs
Name the first national park established in 1872
What is Yellowstone National Park
How many presidents have lost when they ran for reelections: 2, 5, 11, or 13
What is 11. Both Adams, Van Buren, Cleveland, B. Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Ford, Carter, G.H.W. Bush, and Trump.
Name the kids group that Teddy Roosevelt's kids were a part of.
What is the White House Gang?
Thomas Jefferson loved music. Name the instrument that he played.
What is the violin? He played duets with his wife, Martha, who played the harpsichord
Name the oldest President in office.
Who will be Donald Trump? he will be 82 at the end of his second term.
The White House became the official name for the President's home in 1802 or 1901
what is 1901 Teddy Roosevelt authorized the name
During WW1 the White House was picketed by which group cadets or suffragist
What was by Suffragists, who wanted the right to vote. Wilson placed in them in jail for protesting
Name the first months of a new president's administration.
What is the honeymoon period. Congress and the media usually hold back on criticism during this time.
Name the President that lost two sons in two different World Wars.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt. His son Quentin was killed in WW1, and Teddy Jr. died i WW2.
Have there been more James or Johns
There have been more James (6) and only 4 have been named John.
Name the 4 presidents' faces on Mount Rushmore.
Who is George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.
One President had 3 different Vice Presidents
true or false
what is true?
Franklin D. Roosvelt who served 4 terms had 3 different vice presidents
Name the group that was granted US citizenship in 1917
What is Puerto Rico
Name the different methods of voting
What is mail-in, absentee, and in-person
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt once lived in New York's capital city. Name the city.
What is Albany. Roosevelt was governor of New York and lived there from 1929 to 1933.
Was Franklin Pierce the first president to have his own lifeguard or his own bodyguard.
What is his own bodyguard. Rumor has it, an angry citizen threw a hardboiled egg at him.
Name the Conservationist President.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
A member of the cabinet is responsible for tracking how much money Americans spend.
What is The Secretary of Commerce, who keeps track of consumer spending
The Teapot Dome scandal was caused by corrupt leadership of the first domed sports stadium.
True or False
What is false?
A government official accepted bribes to lease publicly owned oil reserves to private companies during the Harding administration.
Describe a dark horse candidate.
What is an unknown or unlikely choice. The term can also describe someone whose election win is unexpected.
The first two presidents to NOT be reelected were father and son. True or False.
What is True. John Adams nor John Quincy Adams were reelected
Name Zachary Taylor's nickname
Old Ironside or Old Rough and Ready
What is Old Rough and Ready, as a general he dressed to fight not for show.
First President born in as a US citizen.
Who is Martin Von Buren? Born after the American Revolutionary War when the US officially became a country.
The document that outlines the powers of the president
What is the US Constitution?
Pony Express delivered its first batch of mail in 1860, who was in office
Who is James Buchanan
Mail-in voting began in the US during the Covid-19 pandemic.
True or False
What is false. Mail-in voting began during the Civil War.
George W. Bush brother was governor of which state.
What was Florida, his brother is Jeb Bush?
More presidents have been born in Virginia than in any other state.
True or False
What is true. Eight presidents were born in Virginia. The most recent was Woodrow Wilson.
Name the 1st Republican President
who is Abraham Lincoln
Have there been periods in US history when there was no vice president in office
What is yes? It takes time select a new vice president if the president dies or vice president dies or resigns while in office.
The transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 under who's presidency
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
How many presidents were in office during the War in Afghanistan? Name them.
What is 4.
G.W. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden. The war began after 9/11, in 2001, and ended 2021.
A scandal erupted in 1788 when John Adam's son ran naked through Harvard Yard.
True or False
What is True. Charles Adams, John's middle son.
What instrument did President Bill Clinton play
What is the saxophone
Shortest Presidential term
Who is William Herny Harrison only 31 days?
Was Camp David named after David Bowie, David Crockett, or David Eisenhower
What is David Eisenhower, President Eisenhower disliked he cabin's original name, Shangri-La, and named it after his grandson.
Air-conditioning was first introduced in the White House because of a Presidential assassination.
True or False
What is true?
They installed an air-cooling device in 1881, to ease James Garfield's discomfort after he was shot
Which of these presidents never held elected office before the presidency: Donald Trump, Herbert Hoover, James K. Polk, Calvin Coolidge?
Who is Donald Trump and Herbert Hoover. Eisenhower, Grant and Tayler.
During what revolution did First Lady Elizabeth Monroe rescue a woman from the guillotine in Paris.
What is the French Revolution. She saved General Lafayette's wife from execution.
Who was president when the first telephone was installed in the White House?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s
Name the president who lost the reelection just after the stock market crash.
Who is Herbert Hoover. The campaign slogan "Play Safe with Hoover" didn't win over jobless voters.
During the Coolidge administration, every major country signed an agreement never to make war. True or False
What is true?
It was called Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Coolidge's secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg, won the Nobel Peace Prize for it
When Grover Cleveland was president, did Americans build the First skyscraper or the first submarine
What is the first skyscraper.
It was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, amazing sight at ten stories high
In 2000, Al Gore won the popular vote, but he did not become president. Who did?
and name the state where the events took place and what they were called.
Who is George W. Bush
in the state of Florida with the hanging chads and a presidential election that was decided by the US supreme court that ended the Florida recount.
Name the president that was the grandfather of another president.
Who is Henry Harrison, his grandson is Benjamin Harrison.
Was the assassin of William McKinley's accused of being a terrorist or an anarchist
He was accused of being an anarchist
Name the number of President's that had military service. (Army, Navy, etc..) Bonus point if team can list more than five of them
What is 31 presidents?
Benjamin Banneker work on the plans for the white house or the District of Columbia
What is the District of Columbia. He was born a free African American in Maryland in 1731, he also published a series of almanacs.
Name the president that signed the Chinese exclusion Act of 1882
Who is Chester Arthur. It prevented Chinese laborers from entering the US for 10 years.
If no presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes, who decides the next president.
What is Congress. They make the decision, the House picks from the top 3 candidates and each state gets one vote. The winner must receive a majority.
Name the first and only president to be the parent of a set of twins.
Who is George W. Bush, he is father of fraternal twins Barbara and Jenna Bush.
What federal building in Washington DC contains more than 170 million items in more than 400 languages.
What is the Library of Congress. Besides books, it contains maps, manuscripts, musical compositions and more.